New York City NYC Storm (Tornado) September 16, 2010 (9/16/10)

[@SidB8]

I'm from Flushing and watching that gave me HUGE flashbacks!

[@unknowndude941]

i was doing my hw when all of the sudden, heavy rain came down with strong winds. i heard what sounded like a whooshing sound and loud thuds outside my house. my family checked it out, walked a few blocks. amazing that a city bus was flipped upsidedown, luckily had no people inside. pieces of roofing were everywhere, large tress knocked down.

[@reyalexisjelly]

Damn you were lucky. I was at the beach when it happened and since I was where the sand was at, they felt like needles once the wind started punching them towards me

[@scoobameru2458]

All Of “The” Sudden 😆 Illiterate

[@MikMoen]

Kinda seems like the perspective of a dog freaking out, going from window to window.

[@nicklausr6694]

Dead ass though

[@ButlerBulldogBill]

Not trashing the city folk but having a view like that outside a window is not the life for me. So glad to live out in the country.

[@brenthall1793]

I would not want to be that high hell no

[@teddywebber3816]

Brent Hall ikr

[@keepingupwlee]

I actually is not scary it’s actually cool

[@Cursed0]

@@keepingupwlee ikr i like heights a lot!

[@superdogs1]

Ikr but apparently skyscrapers and tall buildings and buildings over like 6 stories whithstand tornadoes due to the foundation and heavy materials. Also the heavier a building the easier it is to survive a tornado. They were more safe higher up than those smaller buildings below

[@alisonstarchylde8141]

At least your windows were cleaned...

[@isacfornicador5145]

Caisen

[@acerboy1882]

@@christjusus9580 bro it's jesus not jusus

[@ladder3257]

@@christjusus9580 stop

[@Darth_Feneris]

cant help but notice that there's no tornado

[@johnny2786]

+Joshua Caskey That's because it was a microburst. At least I'm pretty sure it was.

[@jaggass]

A tornado was confirmed but it was rain wrapped. It probably was a microburst that was part of the same storm.

[@thefrankonion]

F1 tornado, I was there when it happened. Knocked down 5000 trees. www.weather2000.com/NY_Tornadoes.html

[@killajakez]

national weather service confirmed there was a tornado but it was rain wrapped

[@Cursed0]

There was a tornado atleast not as strong as to reach the ground it was more of a mini hurricane like a tropical depression but in some places of ny a tornado did touch land

[@MatthewSherriff]

Just to clear all this up - I live in Kansas City. We would consider this a typical Spring time storm. At best, it's a micro burst. Heavy winds, even 100+ (if that's truly the case), doesn't automatically mean it's a tornado. Now, to someone who is not used to this weather, it would probably seem crazy, scary, awesome, terrifying, etc. It's all relative. And yes, the sound you heard was most certanily hail - no larger than pea sized. Your windows are made to handle it, though. Neat video.

[@MatthewSherriff]

@talvalithan One other observation - I've checked out lots of these videos, and one thing remains constant - the winds lasted for many minutes in each (four - five minutes). In a tornado: Winds don't hit until the tornado hits - tornado comes through, super strong winds hit for 30 - 45 seconds, MAYBE 60 in an F4 or F5, but never 5 minutes. That's why it's called the calm "before" the storm - and not often mentioned, the calm immediately "after" the storm. What are your thoughts?

[@3dplanet100]

That was the thunderstorm that produce a tornado; not the tornado itself. You can not see the tornado, cuz it was somewhere else in the city. If you look at Wikipedia, there was actually an EF1 tornado in Queen/Brooklyn in New York City with one fatality.

[@cometjockeydave4041]

This is a strong outflow caused by a pulse storm off to the right of where the camera can see. At this point the storm cell had matured to a point where it was topping out at maybe 60, or 70 thousand feet where warmer air rapidly cools, and falls back to the ground. When it hits the ground it pushes outward like this causing winds moving away from the storm at speeds sometimes reaching 100 miles an hour.

[@anderlander3848]

That wind ambiance in the background... o_o

[@shawnmagnotta9762]

This a truly unique video, but when you were capturing footage of the storm you could've gotten seriously injured or possibly killed from the hail or acceleration in the wind which could've shattered your window, man. But anyways, this is great footage.

[@sbatncpl]

You are lucky to have such strong windows, plus your home is so quiet!!

[@tappnthekeg]

If not a tornado, then the verge of one, kinda like tropical storm turning into a hurricane

[@bionicsamurai1026]

I feel bad for the Empire State building

[@fleerrineperk1091]

Bionic Samurai10 this is NYC AND ITS NOT A TORNADOE, I DIDN'T SEE NO TORNADOE IN 7 YEARS AGO in NYC and I was born in Brooklyn but I didn't see it , I think it was a tropical storm

[@TheChopmama]

@@fleerrineperk1091 no because i watched an animation and itw as nowhere near! and this video is 10 years old jeez!

[@iCyclone]

Very cool. That whiteout was COMPLETE. Really intense!

[@hebneh]

I think that noise must've been hail hitting the windows, even though it wasn't visible in the heavy rain. Personally I've never seen rain that hard, but there are other videos like this on KZbin where a storm with high winds completely obscures the camera's view. It's like the cloud has actually extended down to the ground. Maybe that's what's happening.

[@talvalithan]

@mattsherr2 NWS confirmed a 2 mile touchdown in both boroughs. Yet it didn't follow the normal characteristics like you said, and in such a large city, no one got a video of anything but an ominous looking rain curtain and storm winds. I thought tornadoes couldn't touch down in the middle of a gust front. There's a staten island video of a funnel and it appears to form at the front of the storm under the shelf cloud that's approaching. I'm just a hobbyist so... I don't get it.

[@hollybeary]

I kept waiting for Godzilla to walk by.

[@DingoXBX]

i was in Paterson Nj while this happened all I remember was heavy rain and loud whooshing shaking the house

[@matthewunger6029]

Looks like this was filmed from the Brooklyn Law School Feil Hall building, which is a student residence, and filmed from/on the SW-facing side of the building. (per Google Maps Data and triangulating certain landmarks, Court House Apartments and NY Sports Club directly to the South, Piers off to the West, lower Manhattan to the NW)

[@N.Sardone]

Well if iCyclone is leaving comments it’s obviously a good video. 😉 I love watching weather. I live in the middle of the white mountains in NH growing up and I definitely miss the sounds of the thunder there. It was always super loud and it echoed off the mountains. Thank you for sharing!!

[@globextradingsystemsllc1740]

Micro bursts, not tornado's

[@greenappleman7]

I'm pretty sure that is hail. Nice capture! It was incredible that NYC got multiple tornadoes in one year

[@evanthomas4468]

I never thought New York City ever got that many cause tornadoes don't always strike large cities,especially coastal cities.

[@MatthewSherriff]

@potatoemonger47 What I should've said was "no single, straight line of physical destruction, discernible by ground damage" - look at videos from tornadoes hitting neighborhoods in the Midwest. You'll see one long line of damage - evidence of the tornadoes path. In NYC, the damage was spread across many miles - no tornado is many miles wide. The largest ever measured was just under 1 mile wide. An F5+ (320MPH) in Oklahoma, 1999. The "white barrier" was actually super-heavy rain blowing sideways.

[@potatoemonger47]

@mattsherr2 im not tryin to be all like i know more than u or any thing, but I just thought I'd say something that came to mind when i read your comment-you said this wasent a tornado becuase there was no focused destruction-no single, straight line. But im gonna point out that during the apex of the storm in this video, you couldent see a damn thing. the camera was just filming a solid white barrier out the window, so, that piece of evidence really wasent enough to say that it wasent a tornado.

[@naththoau]

What I heard about is that storm produced wind gust to 201kph in Aussie conversion. 201kph wind gust is related to Category 3 to 4 tropical cyclone. That is very destructive storm you have had in NYC from very severe squall line.

[@tryzmsotryll]

i think it was a bow echo or a derecho

[@TheOkieGaming]

Never stand by the windows! Especially when your that high up the force of the rain and anything else is more higher than if you were on the first floor

[@JLBREMER]

Wow this is so cool. I would of been doing the same thing!! Not sure if it's an office or your apt but that must be awesome to have that view everyday!! I saw another video where it was filming towards the street and the window was busted out of one of the shops. Pretty crazy storm. Only remember it because 9/16 is my birthday. Awesome video !

[@Kreemerz]

@mattsherr2 I love this response. I kept insisting that what they experienced was just a severe downdraft and microburt activity. Even after the weather "experts" said that it was a tornado, I still refused to believe that given all the video I carefully looked at.

[@TrafficCamWatch]

What does 125 mph wind look like? That.

[@lydianewcomb]

Great video of the storm coming in and a great view. (Btw, your place seems well insulated!) I've been watching a lot of these and there is hail, whiteouts of rain, horizontal winds and some people even sense popping in their ears. Tornado? Sure seems like it to me.

[@aametriigraham8489]

At 2:17 you can see the rotation...wow

[@Quelquefois1793]

I don't understand what made New Yorkers think that was a tornado. Midwesterners laugh.

[@tryzmsotryll]

there was a small rainwrapped EF0 btw

[@RINGOTVHD]

Hey, did you catch the storm we had tonight here in NY (Oct 11, 2010) between 8:20 to 8:54 LOL This weather is going crazy. The same storm happened again. I tried to get footage, but its night time and it was to dangerous to film. For some reason I think these storms are going to get worse.

[@heatherstub]

I could finally breathe deeply at 4:02! For almost 2 minutes, you had me scared, because I don't know, but I believe you were pretty close to that window. How high up were you by the way? That was scary, but it didn't sound like a tornado. If it was, it was rain-wrapped. I was more worried about the hail.

[@talvalithan]

@mattsherr2 @mattsherr2 It was a really weak tornado though and the microburst actually did a lot more damage. Also the tornado was completely rain wrapped so would video footage of it be much different? I see storm videos from where the tornado supposedly touched down and from outside areas looking exactly the same to me- windy and 0 visibility. Seems that the only difference is what type of damage left over really. What do you think?

[@Guitar_Dude09]

was that hail or was that how hard the the rain hiting or was it dibris

[@MatthewSherriff]

@talvalithan Tough to say. Statistically, very few tornadoes are actually rain-wrapped, b/c the vortex is at the left-rear (bottom left quadrant) of the supercell & the rain has already passed. No doubt this has many characteristics of a tornado, especially the "circular winds" visible in the videos. But remember the terrain - giant buildings & narrow street passages - the wind will act in totally unpredictable patterns. That seems to me to explain the circulation seen in all these videos.

[@letseeitplease]

excellent video, i liked it,,,,,, how many flights up are you when you took this video?

[@cadecompton7713]

I'm not hating but how many times have you heard "stay away from the windows"

[@jenniferz3166]

Is this in Astoria? That building looks like LIC highschool

[@bobbysmith8992]

No tornado here. Though a really awesome micro burst. I was in it as well

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

(Hail starts hitting the window) move towards window and press your face to the glass. Brilliant!

[@letseeitplease]

20th floor wow thats up there ,,, i just had to come watch this again, i like it, this was excellent video of your storm, hey maybe around christmas you could make another video of the lights christmas lights from this same windows, maybe some snow on christmas eve,,,, i just sub to your channel,, take care,

[@GunsNRoses570]

Nice video, but were is the tornado?

[@badgrfan]

what part of NYC where you in when this was filmed?

[@missdoglover1644]

Why not open the window to get a better look?

[@volnick1986]

at 3:28 was that hale hitting the window?

[@tauwan0]

I remember this but I have to say, I cant see a tornado in the video. Nor did I see one when I experienced it.

[@stevelovessialetsdance5966]

Tornado in NY is very rare so scary..

[@rodriigm]

Wow, is a tornado something usual in NYC?

[@ColdRain112]

+Rodrigo Gómez Molina weirdly no

[@freemefromcaptivitypls3772]

Hell No This is the Northeast, go down south and find one

[@GIguy]

Man, you guys get hit with everything! Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, terrorist attacks....shows just how tough New Yorkers are! I'm in Toronto, we have the most boring weather on the planet. Only once, back in the 50's, did we have the tail end of hurricane hazel. Other then that? Biggest issue we face is drought and killer humidity in the summer, and deep cold, but rarely much snow, all winter, yet we're famous for bitching about the weather anyways. We're in a geographically protected area (yes, we're on Lake Ontario, but we have the Toronto islands to protect the harbour) so we hardly ever see weather like you guys get. You should see it here when we see the first few flakes of snow in November/December, every acts like the world is coming to an end, it's really quite pathetic!

[@fleerrineperk1091]

TJ Devereaux nope, NYC does not get hity by tornadoes and they barely get hit by hurricanes but we got hit by a tropical storm Because hurricane sandy

[@TruMoist]

dragon soul!!! Hurricane sandy was a cat 3 hurricane it was the second “biggest” hurricane in diameter it was double the size of texas

[@vishalSharma-ol9fl]

Well you just got an ef3 tornado now.. happy?

[@JWalker1976a]

@@fleerrineperk1091 Where do u get your info. There were at least 10 confirmed tornadoes in the past 10 years. Millions in damage n a handful of ppl actually died. Sandy was a major hurricane when it hit NY. How can u say NY never get hit when they r confirmed n all over the internet. Look them up. How can u say it can never happen? That's like saying California cant get hit wit a Hurricane. Anything can happen just like NY got hit wit Earthquakes. Look that up too.

[@fleerrineperk1091]

@@JWalker1976a i live in ny and never seen a single tornado

[@MatthewSherriff]

@jujumediazone I simply don't want people to have a false sense of what a tornado is like. This was a mild storm in comparison to a tornado - again, relative to what New Yorkers are used to, this was a major storm. But there's no debris indicating TORNADO strength destruction. That requires consistent, straight line, focused destruction, which didn't occur. Weak structures / tree fail all the time in heavy wind - and that's what happened. Not a tornado. At least not in this video. Still neat!

[@carloshombre6595]

did you choose the word "tornado" to get more clicks, or because you thought it was one? Just asking... look at the way the rain falls, and the strong wind are typical signs for a so called DOWNBURST.

[@Tahreya]

thats exactly what happened near my house it was so much rain for less than ten minutes then the tornado was gone

[@heatherstub]

Well, my hopes weren't dashed. That thunder really got louder, too.

[@allisonandysarah]

Also, Lightning shoots out electromagnetic waves which will ALWAYS interfere with your magnetically operated camera......it happens in all lightning videos. :)

[@tryzmsotryll]

no, thats because itd a rolling shutter. most cameras use rolling shutter which means lightning looks bad on rolling shutters. on global shutter it wont do that

[@TheKumarkid16]

First time huh?

[@gackback8]

Yes, but in general you don't have to see a funnel (Black thing coming down from the sky) for it to be a tornado.

[@SuperNickxX]

@ChaseThatTornado67 The winds were over 120 miles per hour

[@gackback8]

There is a tornado, and then there is a funnel, the funnel is the black thing that comes from the sky. there can be a EF0 to EF5 this was probably a EF0

[@CDondo214]

Did yaw see a funnel cloud???

[@eagbplayz851]

How do I not remember this?? Of course I don't I had no memory I had just about to turn 2

[@shingodzilla1838]

First time scientists know about why tornado hit New York.

[@29AllyCPPS]

yasss this all happened when i was in first grade :3 giving me soooo much memories

[@ElGatoDelInfierno]

Me sleeping that I was a 2 years old and my mom was worried

[@DeathMorethanlife]

a tornado happened in queens 2 tornado's happened in queens that day an ef0 and a ef1

[@Kg_eltio]

I was a baby when that happened

[@shqnni]

aa i was 4

[@SilverTheHedgehog090]

We interrupt this youtube video to bring you "The Day After Tomorrow"

[@ariefraditya868]

i know this was not a tornado but whoever say tornado can't pass a city look in okc in 1999, nashville in 1998, and tuscaloosa/birmingham in 2011 if you didn't believe it

[@ariefraditya868]

*me

[@dabadydab]

Arief Raditya plus the tornado that hit atlanta right in the middle of a basketball game

[@ariefraditya868]

Jonathan Chasse i almost forget it but idk when it happen

[@miagucci8319]

Arief Raditya it's was a freaking yo random smart ass you try to act like you know what your talking about but you have no idea

[@ariefraditya868]

Ok for mia gauci i wasn't even know everything but i knew that tornado can't even drill big city look at the fact dfw texas 2012 tornado tuscaloosa-birmingham alabama in 2011 okc in 1999 nashville in 1998 moore in 2013 and many more that approved tornado can drill through city

[@wwjdkaren]

Click Bait....NO TORNADO !!!

[@roxydzey]

i cant understand why people are standing near windows in such storms.. imagine if it got broken.. the cameraman would have thrown out of the window from so high...

[@talvalithan]

@potatoemonger47 Search for "Tornado Hits Hebrew Home at Riverdale" on youtube. 20 seconds in, it shows security surveillance videos of the tornado. All you can see is a white barrier before the trees fall over. Maybe when it comes to weak, rain wrapped tornadoes, there's not much difference. Maybe the only difference is damage indicative of circular winds but that's it. Though on the riverdale video, at 39/40 seconds it looks like you can barely make out a tornado on the right.

[@weakpatriot]

10 years and 1 day earlier from now.

[@jonassouza6461]

The sounds seems like hail.

[@heatherstub]

Yeah it does until he/she covers it up with his/or her finger. I had to stop listening, because the audio was so distorted, and I don't mean that it's because he/she was by a window that was closed. I hope I can make it til the end of the video, because I'm hoping he/or she takes his/her finger off the mic. (oh and yes, I'm totally blind. That's why I'm using the language I'm using. I'm also typing this using text-to-speech software that tells me what I'm typing, so I can correct any mistakes as I go along. I still proofread my comments just in case I missed any.)

[@SuperNickxX]

@jonesbones638 I was there when this disaster happened. And as thatrik said, no one was trying to act tough. I really have to admit for me i have never seen a disaster lik dis in New york but it was really suprising for this to happen here and when i was outside in the rain pouring i was terrified. the wind was pushinq me everywere i couldnt see a thing because all the rain. i didnt know were to go. so its mostly that you have never seen a thing like this happen to you, mayb u shouldnt b talkin

[@gymcoach15]

I live in Minnesota and this is the kind of weather we get not NYC.

[@simplydifferent7712]

Downburst, not a tornado.

[@Random-jv3jb]

*microburst

[@simplydifferent7712]

A tornado would destroy everything and goes way harder then this on video ;)

[@fabioccc8855]

P. de W. sarcastic?

[@fleerrineperk1091]

Simply Different ikr, because there are no tornadoes in nyc

[@thomasackerly2410]

Well 2wks tomorrow is the 10years anniversary to it maybe we get another one

[@ZINC_CROSS6868]

10 years ago today.

[@ogtriplextriple2271]

I was 3 years old when this happened

[@jonathanDTV]

dang you have an awsome view form your apartment wich i lived in new york :P PS i love when that happends i get alot of this type of weather iin el paso this time of year :p

[@GunsNRoses570]

So you agree with me, there is no TORNADO in this video

[@DavideTela]

*Incredible !*

[@BAMABOYSTELK1999]

Looks more like a rain shaft at the beggining

[@viboltith1655]

I dont see any tornado eneywear

[@mrkos87]

its rain guys, isn't that obvious?

[@mariustome]

It's clearly a downburst

[@miagucci8319]

Màrius Tomé i Covelo ITS NOT

[@eagbplayz851]

Microburst*

[@carlosmagnoqb]

Wasn't it a microburst?

[@annalisa712]

In my opinion it looks like a microburst but a lot of news stations reported it as an EF1 tornado.

[@carlosmagnoqb]

Interesting...

[@solarstorm-1]

Anna M THIS DOES NOT HAVE DAMAGE AS EF1 FTW!? The EF scale goes off damage, not wind.

[@annalisa712]

Espin Hollon that's just what the news stations reported it as.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

EF-0, same rating as a microburst, waterspout or strong dust devil out west..

[@matthewsimpson7647]

And, LOL I am in Illinois, that was no tornado, was a gust of wind, and I am in Illinois...

[@owimevil]

lol i was totally there at video time 3:40. that rain just poured!! crazy and then it stopped like 4 minutes later -.- i got soaked even with my umbrella

[@GunsNRoses570]

I disagree with you, when you see no funnel, it's no tornado.

[@tryzmsotryll]

youre wrong x

[@ChaseThatTornado67]

HOLY SHIT! the winds were around 70-80 where u were

[@chrisking6236]

its a Downburst, not a Tornado

[@m.hoffman2889]

its a downburst not a tornado

[@zaire4016]

Where's the tornado???

[@miagucci8319]

rejji kavanaugh it's not in camera probably on the other side of the building

[@ShaneD3488]

Nice vid, but that was not a tornado. Though if there was a tornado, the last place you'd wanna be is a high-rise building.

[@freemefromcaptivitypls3772]

That wind be WiPpInn

[@germanygerman7762]

this is a microburst not a tornado

[@miagucci8319]

Germany German it was a freaking tornado do your research

[@Elfnetdesigns]

waterspout EF-0

[@lukeaj6774]

Do you even tornado knowledge bro? In all seriousness, waterspouts are called waterspouts because they're on water. If it is on land it is called a tornado or a landspout. This is an EF0 tornado.

[@lukeaj6774]

Jeez, I was just trying to be a little funny and add to the fact that waterspouts are called waterspouts for a reason.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

XD I know

[@jennifer2233100]

didnt know there were tornadoes in new York